Signaling device



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Patented June 28, 1927.

UNITED STATES tenses Parser? orrrcs.

CHARLES E. MYERS, F VANCOUiVER; WASHINGTON.

SIGNALING DEVICE:

Application filed January 4,'1922. Serial No. 526,891.

This invention aims to provide a simple means whereby the driver of a vehicle can. transmit signals to pedestrians and to the drivers of other vehicles.

o It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhancethe utility of devices of that type to whichthe invention appertains.

l/Vith the above and other objects in view,

10 which will appear as the description pro ceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that, within 15 the scope of what is claimed, changes in the precise embodiment of the invention shown can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 shows in elevation, a device con; structed in accordance with theinivention;

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section '1Figure 3 is a cross section on the line 33,o .Fig;--

ure 2; Fi ure 4 is a eross-sectionon theline- 44 of I igure 2 ;-Figure 5 is a .cross,,see-. tion on the line 5 5 of Figure =2; Figured is a sectional detail illustrating the'zarma ture v in operative relation to the;-elec tro-, magnet; Fig.1] is a-fragmental (plamwhere;

in-thesignaljis shown 'develope F igure. 8; is aI-fragmental'plan whereinthe casing is shown= developed; Figure- 9 :is a diagram. illustrating oneway inwhichsthedevice may be wired up. ,1,

:13 .;In;carrying out the invention, thereis provided -,a. tubular, casing 1, adaptodjo. be. mounted on the forward end of a vehicle in anysuitable way, a similar casing being placed on the rear end of the vehicle. The

-20 casing at the front of the vehicle is provided with circumferentially spaced openings 2 and 3, indicated in Figure 8.

Disposed within the casing 1 is a support, denoted generally by the numeral 4, the

4 support comprising a transverse plate 5 secured at 6 to the casing 1, the support including, further a plate 7 disposed parallel to the plate 5 and held thereon by securing elements 8, the securing elements carrying M spacers 9 disposed between the plates.

An electric motor 10 is mounted in the casing 1, adjacent to one end thereof, the shaft of the motor being designated by the numeral 11, and being connected by a coubf pling 12 to a signal shaft 14 journaled in the plates Stand 7. of the support 4 and in one end'of the casing l.

The numeral 1 5 des ignates atubular signail-which is located in-th'e casing 1, the signal; being open. at one end, as shown at 16 iu'Figure r2,..adjacent to. the plate 7 of the support}; .The signal -includes a head lfisecurediotheshaft l4 and,.. further the signal-may enrb ody, a partitionr'l8, likewise mounted ontheshajft'let, and serving to re tain thepsignal securelypomthe shaft. A plurality of; legends. 19 extend around the signal 15, each legen d 19 being duplicated as-sliownat 20. The-legendslQ and 20 are disposed glongitudinally of. the, signal -15. Then one .of t he, glegends 1 8, is exposed at the opening, 2,,tqpedestrainsand the drivers of a pproaching vehicles, the. 2 corresponding legend. 2(tis e xposedgthrough the opening 3, to the drive1;of tl1e vehicle on .which the s gnal is located. lf thesignal; isdisposed at the. 1 ear of. the -vel 1 icle, theopening 3 mayv be omitted, since ,viously, the driver of the vehicle on which the signalis located, a nots e the-wa n 3n I El eetigo magn ets 21- are -,d isposed radially between the-platesfi andj bf the s n port 4 l'erg e dwn 'tlxe-tp a sa' 'i bro e lash at e d.aimat resflr ee nei e to h V the. .armatur es. beingme 'm sd-' ucq a ll wmteeme i t t r ends,-

W ama ln a e p at a stewar 12. Retractile p in s ex eu rlieiiweeat ea m 24 ZLLId QlIQyPJEIt QQ and senve to, retract the armaa a thi z u ct with: defi e-m g Ellen-1t sls -wm en saa e e r sli klfiiies w e t eam a p jecting stop arm 28 being attached at 29 to the disk.

The casin 1 may carry a bracket 30 supporting a tu e 31 extended within the signal 15, the tube being provided with a socket 32 carrying a lamp 33. The conductors 34: for the lamp extend rearwardly through the tube 31.

The structure may be wired up in any desired way, depending upon the taste of the user or the judgment of an electrician. If desired, the motor 10 may be located in a circuit 35, containing a source 36 of electrical energy, the circuit including the windings of the electro-magnets 21, one end 3? of the winding of each magnet being permanently connected to the circuit 35,

whereas the other end 38 of the winding of each electro-magnet is connected: to the circuit -35 through the instrumentality f a normally open switch 39, which may be In the form of a pushbutton. There is one armature 24 and one elect-ro-magnet 21 for each of the legends 19 on the signal there bein; one switch or push button for each of the electro-magnets. A glance at Figure 9 will render it evidentto those skilled in the art, that any one of the clectro-magnets may he energized separately.- each time that the motor is put into operation.

\Vhcn rotation is imparted to the shaft it and the signal 15 by the motor 10, the legends 19- appcar, one after another, at the opening 2 (Figures 7 and 8), the legends 20' appearing, one after another, at the opening 3. a signal thus being transmitted to pedestrians and to the drivers of approaching vehicles. and the driver of the vehicle on which the signal is located being advised, at the same time, as to the particular legend which is displayed. \Vhen any one ofthe electro-ma'gnets 21 is energized, the corresponding armature 24 is attracted, and caused to swing, on its pivotal mounting 25- against the action ofthespring 26, one end of the armature 24" being disposed in the path of the stop arm 28 on the disk 27 of the signal shaft- 14'. Thus, the rotationof the signal 15' is stopped. thereby disclosing the appropriate legend 19 thronglrthe opening 2 In the building of the device, the el'ectrm magnets 21 rarely can' be set correctly at the first trial. Some of the magnets intrude upon others at their inner ends. and diversof the magnets will be' set out toofar radially of the-plat'e'l. The practice is to place the magnets by eye on the ntate'Z, set upa little; but not tootightly, on the yokes 22-, connect the plate! to'the late 8-,note the ositions of'themagnets, (l tach the plate '7 with all the magnets, tap the magnets in or" out radially of the platei". tighten up the yolces 22. and connect the plate 7 permanently to the plate 8. The parts, as thus arranged, then may be secured within the casing. I". It is desirable to have all of the electro-magnets 21 located properly with respectto each other and with respect to thearinatures 24 before. the device. is assembled as shown in Fig. 2, because after assembly, the enclosing" casing 1. the motor 10 on one side, and the signal 15 on the other, mnderthe' magnets highly inaccessible; and since the device is not a high-priced article, it cannot be sold with profit if it has to be set up completely and pulled down several times, for adjustment.

Having thus described the invention, what is churned is In a device of the class described, a tubular casing. afirst transverse plate secured to the casing and located witliin't-he-casing', a second trzmsverse plate disposed parallel to the first plate. both plates having open ings, securing elements connectingthe plates and supporting the second plate from the first plate inspaced relation to the casing, a shaft jonrnaled in the plates, electroinagnets located radially 'with respect to; the shaft anddisposedbetween the plates. means formounting the magnets on the second plate independently ofthe first plate, armar ture levers extended through the openings of both plates andful'crumed' intermediate t-heir'end's on the first plate; springs located outwardl -y of'the first plate and connecting the ends of the armatureswith the first plate, a stopprojecting froin theshaft, the

springs-constituting means-for holding the opposite-endsofthe armatures out of thepatfi-of the stop.- the arn'iat-ures being mounted to swing radially of the shaft and being responsive to the electI-o-magnets to dispose the Ia'stspe'cifi'ed 'encls of the armatures in the pathof the stopg a signal-carried by the shaft; and i a motor connected to thesha'th'the signal-and the motor-being located within the casin m ln testnnony'tha't l elaim'the'foregoing as my QWhg'P have hereto afiixedmy signature.

CHARLES E. NEYERS. 

